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...outer limits of ordinary present-day oratory. In the wild crash of applause, many a legislative eye was wet. So were many other eyes across the land as the nation turned from radios and television screens back to office duties and neglected chores. Douglas Mac-Arthur handed his manuscript to the clerk, waved to his wife in the visitors' gallery, then strode through the cheering rows of Congressmen. History would remember this day and this man, and mark him large...
...white-haired man with an owlish look rose at his desk in the U.S. Senate and began to read from the manuscript before him. His resonant voice rolled across the quiet chamber: "Each of us can only speak according to his little lights-and pray for a composite wisdom that shall lead us to high, safe ground." So Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, of Michigan, swung into a 39-minute oration which galvanized the Senate...
...years ago, they found themselves long on students and qualified professors, but short on the materials of church scholarship. Father Lowrie J. Daly, 37-year-old instructor in medieval history, suggested that his superiors ask permission to make microfilm copies of as many as 42,000 rare and ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which some U.S. librarians have called "the most important manuscript library in the western world." Not very hopefully, St. Louis' President Paul C. Reinert forwarded a request through church channels to the Vatican librarians...
Back in Portugal he married and spent 20 years on the manuscript of his adventures. It was never published in his lifetime, but he had official recognition of a sort anyway. In 1583, in his 74th year, the Portuguese government awarded him a pension of two hogsheads of corn annually "for his services in India." Four months later, Fernão Mendes Pinto was dead...
...came prepared to be busy. In that we have succeeded. We take courses. Our husband gets a yen for Faulkner; we read Faulkner. He starts Becoming a Writer. We type his manuscript. He takes up handball. We bandage his skinned knees...